Windows Vista and external hard drives and cloning!

ok i have a windows partition with windows vista but it says its a trial version...

so i have an old windows computer and would like to clone it's hard drive and make it bootable onto my mac. I would put that clone onto my external hard drive and then put it onto a bootcamp partition.

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so i have an old windows computer and would like to clone it's hard drive and make it bootable onto my mac. I would put that clone onto my external hard drive and then put it onto a bootcamp partition.

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Generally not worth it. What does work quite well, is using VMWare Converter to take a real machine to a VM, but going to Boot Camp is not generally effective since the hardware is massively different.

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